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No. 757,957. PATENTBD APR. 19, 1904. L. PEDERSON.

CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 22, 1903.

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No. 757,957. PATENTED APR. 19, 1904; L. PEDERSON.

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LABS PEDERSON, OF MANITOWOO, WISCONSIN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,957, dated April 19, 1904. Application filed September 22, 1903- Serial No. 174,188. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, LARS PEDERsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Manito woo, in the county of Manitowoc and State of l/Visconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements 1n Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in cabinets, more particularly for holding seed, while it would serve equally as a medicine cabinet or case.

Said invention has for its object to provide for the convenient and compact holding or storage of seed either loose or in packages and for ready access to and removal of the same as occasion may require.

Said invention consists of the combination and arrangement of parts, including their construction and arrangement, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, and specifically pointed out by the claim concluding the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is an end elevation. Fig. 2 is a crosssection with the hinged or pivoted sections elevated. Fig. 3 is a front view with one section elevated. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section with the parts closed.

In the carrying out of my invention 1 construct the cabinet of a primary section 1 and of two lesser sections 2 2, hinged or pivoted to the first named, as at 2, the points of connection therebetween being effected at the opposite upper longitudinal edges of section 1 and the normally upper inner corresponding edges of the sections 2 2, the latter when elevated or opened resting upon the member 1 and standing back to back, as shown in Fig. 2. The main section 1 is furnished or equipped with preferably duplicate bottom tiers of bins or compartments 8 and above these with a drawer 4, having duplicate tiersof compartments or cells 4:, while above the latter is arranged a similar drawer 5, having also duplicate tiers of cells or compartments 5. The drawer 4 is adapted to slide upon the upper edges of the partitions or walls of the bins or compartments 3, and the drawer 5 is adapted to slide upon cleats or strips 5", secured laterally to the main section 1, both of said drawers being adapted to be pulled outward through either of the open-front portions of said latter section, according to the tier of compartments containing the kind of seeds Wanted. Said drawers are provided with suitable means, as screw-rings 5, for the convenient movement thereof in gaining access to their contents. Also across the open or forward ends of the compartments of said drawers are stretched wires 5, and at the lower forward edges of said compartments are secured strips of suitable material or wires 5 to provide for the proper retention therein of the seed-packages. As an example of effecting this purpose in another way or aiding the same bail-like contrivances 6 may be pivoted in the lateral walls of said compartments with the connecting portions between their arms reaching to the open front ends thereof, thus staying or holding the seed-packages therein.

Each of the upfolding or hinged sections 2 is furnished with series of tiers of compartments or cells 7 for holding additional -seedpackages for the holding or storing of an extended assortment thereof. As described in connection with the drawers, &c., said compartments or cells are likewise reinforced at their normally lower forward edges with wires or strips 8, stretched across or secured at those points. Also like pivoted retaining devices 9 as those herein pointed out may be used in connection with said compartments 7 for aiding the retention of the seed-packages therein, said retaining devices being in construction and operation the same as the first described.

The pivoted or folding sections 2, having connection with the main section, as described, are adapted not only to be elevated and caused to stand upon the latter with the front or open ends of their compartments presented or facing in the same general direction as the corresponding or open ends of the compartments of said main section, but they (said pivoted sections) are adapted to be folded downwardly with their normal front portions opposed to or facing the corresponding portions of said main section, and thus provide in themselves closures for all of said compartments, both in said main section and said pivoted sections,

and also for the compact folding of said sections one within the plane of and one upon the other, the advantages of which are obvious. Among said advantages it may be noted that additional closures or covers are not required for preventing the disturbing or displacing the contents of said compartments, consequently avoiding the removal of said contents in transporting the cabinet or case thus constructed from place to place, as would otherwise likely be required.

Said cabinet or case may have the constituent parts of its respective sections all nailed or otherwise secured together. It may be made of any size and its sections when folded together be secured by screws or hooks or other suitable means. The various details pertaining to the making of the cabinet may be vavied as circumstances suggest.

I do not wish to be limited as to details of construction, as these may be varied in many particulars without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cabinet of the character described, embracing a primary compartment-section having a compartment drawer, adapted to be moved beyond either open portion of said primary section, and additional corresponding sections, having their normally upper inner edges pivoted or hinged to the upper forward edges of said primary section, said additional or pivoted sections being adapted to form closures for the open ends of the compartments and drawers'of said primary section and arranged to stand within the plane of said primary section and to be elevated and rest upon said latter section and stand back to back.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LABS PEDEBSON.

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A. L. HEUGEN, CHARLES E. BRADY. 

